Matthew "Matt" S. Morgan

A seasoned financial services attorney, Matt provides his clients with sophisticated counsel in the negotiation, structuring, and documentation of subordinated, mezzanine, and more senior financing transactions, backed by traditional or non-traditional security packages, to special situations investments and other ad hoc, rescue or opportunistic lending opportunities. Matt also advises on loan workouts and restructurings, and the financing opportunities associated with such situations, as well as secondary loan trading of distressed credit exposures and the creation of bespoke trading documentation.

Matt worked in law firms and at both buy-side and sell-side financial institutions in London. He spent the last four years working with the special situations group at a European financial institution NatWest Markets, with a direct lending and investment mandate complementing its credit trading business. Matt structured and managed each of the direct lending transactions originated for this business, which varied from super senior to subordinated loans. He was also responsible for managing each restructuring situation for the positions held on book, which varied from bespoke restructurings of more direct exposures to situations involving multiple parties and different levels of credit exposures, and often a number of different jurisdictions. 

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Matt worked in law firms and at both buy-side and sell-side financial institutions in London. He spent the last few years working with the special situations group at NatWest Markets, with a direct lending and investment mandate complementing its credit trading business. Matt structured and managed each of the direct lending transactions originated for this business, which varied from super senior to subordinated loans. He was also responsible for managing each restructuring situation for the positions held on book, which varied from bespoke restructurings of more direct exposures to situations involving multiple parties and different levels of credit exposures, and often a number of different jurisdictions. Previously, Matt was the in-house lawyer for Citigroup’s European Credit Desks for several years. Based on the trading desk, he advised on the documentation, structure, trading and other legal aspects of the credit and private equity positions which were traded by the desks, worked with the analyst teams on the documentation and management of the restructuring credits and corresponding new money opportunities, drafted non-standard and first-instance trading documentation, and acted as the desk legal representative for the dispute resolution efforts in contentious situations, amongst other things.

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